Haxe Roundup 668

Welcome to the latest edition of the Haxe Roundup. Haxe is a high level, strictly typed programming language and cross-compiler.

Community Updates

News and Articles

• Lime 8.0.1 and OpenFL 9.2.1 have been released.
• Dead Cells AMA with the devs.
• Logo has been working on a list of people in the Haxe community on open platforms such as Mastodon.
• Haxe.Social is a new unofficial Akkoma instance for Haxe developers and projects.

Videos & Music

• Everything new in the March 2023 update of Armory 3D.
• Build and preview your game live with Armory 3D.
• Easily create retro or pixelated 3D games in Armory 3D.
• Dead Cells : Return to Castlevania Live Stream.
• Add a video related to Haxe.

Jobs, Bounties

• Add an available job involving Haxe.

Looking for work

• Alex Johansson is looking for a part time/contractor role.
• Rudy Geslin is available for freelance work.

Job listings

• Sean James McKenzie of Armor Games Studios is looking for a team experienced in porting Haxe games to console.
• Corrun is looking for an experienced Haxe programmer to make a deltarune engine.
• Fire Falcom are actively looking for Gaming Platform Programmers.
• Little team is looking for a Haxe developer to work on HTML5 games.

Bounties

• Armory3D bounties are available.
• Keep an eye on the Funkin Bounties repo for future items.
• Basic Platformer Pathfinding AI for HaxeFlixel $150 bounty.
• Squidly has opened up a bounties page for HaxeFlixel features.

Product Releases & Announcements

• Papers, Please 1.4 is now available on Steam. A near-total rewrite by Lucas Pope.

From the Haxe Discord server

• Crop Rotation 0.0.5 is live! With new mechanic : Crop Set. via ZwodahS.
• Cherry On Top is a cherry-throwing arcade microgame made by Markl for Nokia jam using HaxeFlixel.
• Fish, Man is a score-chaser game with a built in leaderboard by tissproper.

Previews & Demos

Open Source

Community Previews

• Sebastian Thomschke has released more-clink-completions git which is an extension repository for clink containing Windows command line completions for various programs (including Docker and the Haxe compiler). They are programmed in Haxe and transpiled to Lua. ️
• The Kha backend for HaxeUI (haxeui-kha) now supports rounded borders & gradients via a set of SDF shaders.
• Script to install Haxe, Lime and OpenFL on a Raspberry Pi running PiOS (raspbian bullseye). By gepatto.
• Debugging Haxe macros in VS Code is so handy!
• Smooth edge progress - pixel line drawing on CPU.

From the Haxe Discord server

• Klaufir has ported a Reed Solomon library to Haxe available on GitHub at hxreed git. ️
• Foreignsasquatch has made a small static site generator:
  • The website.
  • The code.
• Aurel Bílý is working on Ceramic backend for HaxeUI:
  • Splitter now works.
  • Windowing almost fully works now as well.
• Jérémy Faivre is working on LDtk support in Ceramic:
  • Improved ceramic.NineSlice.
  • This is starting to look like correct.
  • Mmmmh… something wrong with that one.
  • Ok, background does display correctly now, but still having an issue with the wall tiles.
  • LDtk project -> Ceramic (Haxe) -> Unity (C#).

Git Repos

• hxdiff git.
• res-cli git.
• IniParser git - A library to parse INI files.
• hbitsignals git - Very simple bit compression and numeric signal compression library.
• Check out the latest open source Haxe projects over on GitHub.

Closed Source

• Super Toast Boy: 14 levels left to make!
• Undocking! in Jitter Sandbox. ️
• New title screen of Chibi Ninja Shino-kun by Andrej.
• Quick videos from WIP game by Robert Alvarez:
  • Dropping shells onto switches.
  • Fitting into tight spaces.
• New quick videos from Renaine:
  • Made a little friend last night. Here they are completely overkilling a 1hp enemy.
  • You can now pick up the lil bird bomb. Take your windup violence on the go!
  • Follow AI is hard. 🐦🤠

From the Haxe Discord server

• Prexot continues work on Rhythm Magus, a combination rhythm game and RPG made in Ceramic.
• Pavel Alexandrov is reimplementing an old jam game as a sample game both for Heaps and TiledHX.
• Map in Minicology now features search function, ability to filter previously visited planets by resource, sorting and more.

Some Library Releases

• flixel-screenshot-plugin 1.5.0
• hxdiscord 0.4.0
• pirhana 1.1.24
• hxjava-slf4j 0.1.0
• hxlua 1.0.0
• tink_domspec 0.4.1
• typepacker 1.2.0
• clink-externs 0.1.0
• tink_multipart 0.4.0
• hloq 1.0.0
• hxdefold 1.4.3
• haxe-nvim 0.2.0
• Check out the most recent library releases on HaxeLib.

People & Projects to support

• Axol Studio is a small independent game development studio, making games with and contributing to HaxeFlixel.
• Funkin’ Crew is making Friday Night Funkin’, a cartoon rhythm gaming excellence.
• Patrick is creating Raspberry Pi 4 support for Haxe/Lime/OpenFL/HaxeFlixel.
• Josh Tynjala is working on Feathers UI — open source, cross-platform UI components built with OpenFL.
• Pavel Alexandrov is primarily contributing to the Heaps engine and is the creator of format-tiled library.
• Ian Harrigan is working on primarily HaxeUI, as well as hxArduino & hxWebSockets.
• Kaelan Evans is working on HxDoom, a Haxe adaption of Doom.
• Richard Oliver Bray is teaching people the things he’s learnt, like React, Typescript and Haxe.
• Alexander Gordeyko is developing Pony, a Haxe open-cross-library.
• Andy Li is working around the Haxe ecosystem: CI, packaging, docs and learning materials.
• Kevin Leung is creating open source software libraries.
• Robert Konrad, the Kha author, is creating Programming Toolkits.
• OpenFL is creating free open source software.
• HaxeUI is creating an open source user interface libraries.
• HaxeFlixel is creating an open source, cross platform 2D game engine.
• Slava Ra is creating improvements for FlashDevelop and HaxeDevelop.
• Mark Knol is working on Haxe and its documentation.
• Dan Korostelev is working on the Haxe compiler.

Updates from the Haxe core

Current Proposals & Discussions

• Add Integer data types proposal.
• Add Trailing Block Expressions proposal.
• Add Caller Tracking proposal.
• Add Traits proposal.
• Add Constructor this.arg syntax proposal.
• Add new syntax for getters & setters inspired by the C# property syntax proposal.
• Add a type for meaningless values (similar to unit type) proposal.
• Add better Overload Support proposal.
• Add Static Extension Meta Functions proposal.
• Add enum abstract over enum proposal, plus clarification.
• Add Enum abstract instances proposal.
• [RFC] Xml Dsl’s discussion.
• Add Default values for enum parameters.
• Do you have an idea to improve Haxe? Consider creating a proposal.

Core Changes

46~ updates have been made to Haxe in the last week.

• [lua] Add lua_standalone compiler define pull request.
• [python] Int32 wrong result for shift left operations issue.
• [macro] haxe.macro.Printer add safe field expr merged.
• [macro] @:this discrepancy from Haxe 4.1.4 to 4.2.x (only via getter) / Macro functions must be called immediately fixed.
• [neko] Add support for loading arm ndlls pull request.
• [hxcpp] Fix architecture check on windows pull request.